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    BB> Kinda like drunk drivers.  It's pretty common to hear about one   
    BB> killing someone while driving drunk, then they go on to state this   
    BB> is his 3rd time arrested while driving drunk, his license has been   
    BB> suspended - yet now he has a death on his hands.  NOW they'll do   
    BB> something about him, but man what a price someone paid to get to   
    BB> that point.   
      
    RW> Agreed.  The trouble with some of these folks is they really aren't all   
    RW> together together, unlike the drunk driver who   
    RW> just can't seem to gather the cojones to be responsible.   
    RW> Not just is the current mental health system harmful to   
    RW> otherwise law abiding average folks, but others who need   
    RW> supervision and ongoing treatment are not equipped to look   
    RW> out for themselves, and they become victims too.   
      
    RW> I remember watching a guy trade a perfectly good running   
    RW> automobile for a sweatshirt and a dollar bill at this same   
    RW> mission.  i would say that more of the people the   
    RW> institutions   
    RW> dumped on us were victims than victimizers.  Usually the   
    RW> powers that be at those institutions didn't send the violent ones back   
    RW> to us, but the others they did send to us were not equipped to look out   
    RW> for themselves.  The drunks and   
    RW> druggies preyed on them, as well as the others from the   
    RW> mental institutions who were considered ready to resume life outside.   
      
      
    RW> But, this creature who shot up a school, we'd be better off   
    RW> setting him up an appointment with old sparky or something.   
      
    Most of the news here is the guy from CO who did the Movie shootup.  Cops are   
   testifying, yet this guy looks like he's completly out of it - spaced out and   
   shows no emotion at all. How can you rehab a guy like that?   
      
   Yup, sparky comes to mind.   (But then it doesn't bring the dead ones back.) :(   
      
      
       
       
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